Quotes About Essence

We have nothing to live but life itself.

great poetry reaches down into the depths of our humanity and captures the very essence of our experience.

Music, Schopenhauer wrote, is not unconscious arithmetic, as Leibniz had claimed, but unconscious philosophy, since in music the inner essence of the world, which is will, is made directly present to the mind.

Being a god is the quality of being able to be yourself to such an extent that your passions correspond with the forces of the universe, so that

Things pass, but the essence remains. You sit, therefore, in the midst of a dream.

It is the difference between the unknown and the unknowable, between science and fantasy - it is a matter of essence. The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.

The Nameless, of which we are all a part, does dream form. And what is the highest attribute any form may possess? It is beauty. The Nameless, then, is an artist.

I look upon the flows of energy which are your real being - not the flesh that masks them.

The great burning blossom squats, flowing, upon the limb of the world, excreting the ash of the world, and being none of these things I have named and at the same time all of them, and this is reality, the Nameless.

My sense of Shadow was dulled in this place which seemed in some way the essence of Shadow.

Losing, and losing again, is the very basis of the life process, till all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.

Writing, on the contrary, is always rooted in something beyond language, it develops like a seed, not like a line, it manifests an essence and holds the threat of a secret, it is an anti­ communication, it is intimidating.

It was the northern economic system that embodied the mix of democracy and capitalism that was to constitute the essence of America in the long run.

Deshaced ese verso, quitadle los caireles de la rima, el metro, la cadencia y hasta la idea misma. Aventad las palabras, y si queda algo todavía, eso será la poesía.

The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

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There is only what is.

The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things.

The first thing to say about that which is is simply: it is. As Parmenides in ancient Greece formulated the principle: what is, is. Or, in Ayn Rand's words: existence exists.

Although rarely given a clear definition, "extremism," in essence, is a term used to condemn those who hold unpopular values intransigently and in action refuse to compromise them; the nature of such action is not delimited by the concept.

The Nazis took over the essence of each side in the German debate and proudly offered the synthesis as one unified viewpoint. The synthesis is: national socialism.

Water is the driving force in nature.

Long shadows of evening creep up the walls, inching closer. Gradually, they reach fully across us, holding us in the stillness that only night can bring. In the hazy gloom of dusk, we are silhouettes of ourselves, reduced to our very essence. The night grows bolder. Unafraid, it opens its mouth and swallows us whole.